Book 4 (Part II)

CHAPTER XVI THK MAGICK KIRE; Willi CONSIDERATIONS OF THK THURIBLE, THE CHARCOAL, AND THE INCENSE INTO the Magick Fire all things are cast. It symbolizes the final burning up of all things in Shivadarshana. It is the absolute destruction alike of the Magician and the Universe. 'I'hc Thurible stands upon a small altar. "My'altar is of open brass- work; burn thereon in silver or gold." This altar stands in the East, as if to symbolize the identity of Hope and Annihilation. This brass con- tains the metals of Jupiter and ^'cnus fused in a homogeneous alloy. This is then symbolical of divine love, and it is " open brass work ' because this love is not limited in direction or extent; it is not par- ticularized, it is universal. Upon this altar stands the Censer proper; it has three legs sym- bolical of fire." Its cup is a hemisphere, and supported from its edge ' Because .Shin, the Hebrew letter of Fire, has three tongues of flame, and its value is 300. 165